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Professional Development Courses for Educators.

Collaborate with Colleagues

Do you want to learn from your colleagues and have fun while earning professional development credits? Any Heritage Institute course can be registered for as a group. Collaborate with colleagues to develop new approaches and share diverse perspectives.

See how easy and convenient it is to register and work as a group by reviewing the drop down menues below.

Group Collaboration Guidelines

+/-Select a Group Leader

First select a Group Leader.

Your Group leader will be the first one to register, providing names and email addresses of the other participants.

+/-Registration

Group collaboration participants must take the course at the 400 or 500 Level.
Group members may register for different levels if needed. Once your group leader has registered, a unique registration link will be sent to each member to register for the course.

For Online Courses:

Registering for an online course allows your group access to a shared forum space. Your instructor will know that all members posting in that space are registered as a group.

+/-Administration

The group leader should sendGroup Collaboration Documentation Form, BEFORE BEGINNING COURSE WORKand UPON COMPLETION, at which time the report should show the assignments done by each group member as well as meeting attendance.

Instructors may alter these guidelines. Some instructors may be open to your suggestions regarding changes to these guidelines.

Elementary teachers! Become a technology leader for your professional team and inspire your students. Develop lessons using free online curriculum-rich resources that will engage students in every core subject. Not only will you learn to access an amazing amount of online resources, you will learn new innovative ways to apply them to your current professional assignment.

Enhance your K-12 Civil War teaching using the books and videos suggested in this course. This innovative course includes a resource file on the Civil War featuring web pages with interactive maps, lesson plans, art, music, reenactment videos, and lectures from leading scholars. Teachers will find ways to actively engage students around many of the major themes and events of this time period.

This course is based on the required text, "Qualities of Effective Teachers" by James Stronge. Stronge’s work emphasizes that the classroom teacher is a person that makes the biggest difference in studies of effectiveness. Also covered are classroom management, curriculum development, lesson delivery. follow-up checklists and ‘red flags’ of ineffective teaching.